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Examinations of referential opacity have almost invariably focused on propositional attitudes, and even more specifically, on belief sentences. This focus has obscured the fact that there are a number of other kinds of sentences in which the logic-linguistic phenomenon of referential opacity occurs. This paper distinguishes two main kinds of referential opacity and offers distinct representations of their logical forms.
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Wyatt, R.W. (1990). Kinds of opacity and their representations. In: Kumar, D. (eds) Current Trends in SNePS — Semantic Network Processing System. SNePS 1989. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 437. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0022088
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